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...report also makes it clear that following Ford's middle course will affect more than the American pocketbook. If land is going to be used more wisely-a top environmental priority-the landowner will have to give up some of his traditional freedom to decide what to do with his property. Similarly, citizens who want more energy must accept oil spills, strip mining and other environmental problems that even expensive technology cannot completely control. Ford writes that the environmental movement has "matured" enough to go along with these compromises. Whether that will prove to be the case depends...
...Medical Center in New York City, the nation's largest complex of voluntary (private, nonprofit) hospitals, expects to be broke by year's end, a victim of rising costs, which produced a deficit of $5.6 million in 1973, up from $2.4 million in 1972. Pain in the pocketbook is causing patients of private physicians to put off deferrable care like plastic surgery and to postpone paying for what treatment they do get. Not surprisingly, the Doctors P Business Bureau of Southern California, which specializes in "ethical collections," is doing a booming business. As for emotionally troubled patients...
...says. "We will be making a real contribution to relieving the pressure on our food supply; we will be keeping people from starving, until they can develop agricultural techniques and methods of population control; we will be improving our health; and we will be improving the state of our pocketbook. Also, we will just be paying attention to people who have problems that are much greater than any that we could possibly have...
Systems like Melun's are harder on the municipal pocketbook than the local ecology; they require a large initial investment. In addition to the high cost of the drilling, Melun's houses must be particularly well insulated to reduce heat losses. But Maugis's son Francois, 33, who has largely taken over the test project since his father suffered a stroke, is convinced that cost is not a serious obstacle. Depending on its location, he says, the system could be less expensive over the long haul than those based on other fuels...
Mayer said yesterday that Harvard should institute as many as two meatless days a week with the savings to the University going to world food relief. "If we cut down our meat consumption, the effect on our pocketbook, the effect on our heart and the effect on our conscience would all be good," he said...